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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET)
Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2019, pp. 174-183, Article ID: IJCIET_10_12_017
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REFORMULATION OF DIVERSION POLICY OF
JUVENILE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS AN
EFFORT TO ACTUALIZE THE JUSTICE VALUE
IN INDONESIA
AniTriwati, Nyoman Serikat Putrajaya, Nur Rochaeti
Faculty of Law, Semarang University, Semarang, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
State has a duty to provide children welfare, to give protection, and to fulfill
children right including the ones who conflict with law. Diversion policy in juvenile
criminal justice system is a renewal of law and one of the forms of legal protection
especially for the child in conflict with law, based on consideration of the child's best
interest. The special protection against the children in conflict with law is a part of
strengthening the human right and put the child not as an object, but as a party must
be fostered and protected. Diversion policy aims to reach a peaceful settlement
between the victim and the accused, to settle the children case outside a court, and to
avoid the children liberty deprivation. Diversion policy is a mean to realize fairness or
justice value toward children in conflict with law which the settlement is done by
diverting the case from criminal justice system. Reformulation of diversion policy of
juvenile criminal justice system is based on the consideration of philosophically,
sociologically and juridical. Diversion is implemented in criminal case done by the
children and it is not a repetition of criminal case.
Keywords: reformulation, diversion, juvenile criminal justice system.
Cite this Article: AniTriwati, Nyoman Serikat Putrajaya, Nur Rochaeti,
Reformulation of Diversion Policy of Juvenile Criminal Justice System as an Effort to
Actualize the Justice Value in Indonesia. International Journal of Civil Engineering
and Technology 10(12), 2019, 174-183.
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1. INDRODUCTION
State obliges to protect the entire Indonesian people and the entire homeland of Indonesia; it
is including a protection for children in conflict with law or children as criminal offender. The
protection itself is a part of the purpose of Indonesia as it is stated in the Preamble 1945
Constitution of Republic of Indonesia. Explicitly, the children right is guaranteed in the 1945
Constitution of Republic of Indonesia Article 28B Section (2) defines that every children has
the right of sustainable life, growth and development, as well as protection from violence and
discrimination.